Abstract Recent Five-Year Plans and No. 1 Central Documents have emphasised the need
for Chinese agriculture to play multiple functions to enhance rural development, alleviate …

The multifunctionality paradigm, in particular, represented a facilitator of sustainable
agricultural development. There arises a question of whether or not the different areas would …

Rural landscapes around the world are increasingly transitioning towards multifunctional
land uses that mix traditional agricultural production with amenity consumption and …

Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is one of the most interesting phenomena of land
management and transformation in recent decades. Thanks to its multiple functions, it can …

In China,“rural” can signal backwardness, poverty, remoteness, and inferiority or,
alternatively, a kind of utopia or idyll–an escape from urban pressures. Representations on …

Peri-urban areas provide both challenges and opportunities for agricultural production, often
generating complex multifunctional landscapes and high levels of farm diversification. In …

Developing sustainable agriculture in ecologically fragile areas is important. To date, the
ecological service value of the rice-fish co-culture in the northwest area of the Hu Line is …

China's Rural Multifunctional Community (RMC) construction is an effective means to
achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability in agriculture. Therefore, we …

Hobby and part‐time farming have become important elements of agricultural development
in peri‐urban areas of developed countries. Although there has been renewed interest …

A healthy park–people relationship depends essentially on the fair and sustainable
maintenance of rural livelihood. When a protected area is designated, rural people may face …